The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-06

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ult. Much damage was done by light.
ping in the surrounding country. A
heavy wind storm swept over the coun.
try around Mason City, Iowa, on the
afternoon Of the goth ult., ~unroofnp
dwellings and blowing down barns.
Kate Callaghan, Della WEIGH, Mat.
tie Heating and Maggie Toomey, whose
ages ranged from IL TO IA years, were
drowned while bathing in the Concord
river at North Billerica, Massachusetts,
on the afternoon of the Goth ult. While
the tug Keyser was on the way from
Tampa TO Mobile, her captain, William
Collins, wal washed overheard and lost
on the evening Of the 9th ult.
"A passenger train on the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad was wrecked by
the breaking of an axle, neal Cochran.
Indiana, on the evening of the 29th
ult. The postal car was completely
demolished, and Robert e. Baker, pos
tai clerk, was killed. Charles Wicher
ing, OF Cincinnati, who was walking
beside the track, was also killed. All
the passengers were severely shaken
up. A passenger train on the Hook
sett branch of the Concord Railroad, in
New Hampshire, on the evening of the
Both ult., ran into a mixed train on a
siding, near Hooksett, in consequence
Of the displacement of a switch.
George French, express messenger, and
Frank Barney. brakeman, were killed.
Three train hands and two passengers
were injured. The real coach of a
mixed train on the East Texas Rail-
road raj off the track near Farmers
vile. Texas, on the morning of the Both
ult., and fell down an embankment.
Seven passengers were injured, one per-
haps fatally. A South Florida Railroad
train raj into a wash-out near Plant
City OIL the Both ult. The engine and
three cars were wrecked, the fireman
was killed and the engineer danger
ously injured. A freight train on the
Reading Railroad ran off the track
near Shamokin on the morning of the
Both ult. Twenty Gals were wrecked,
the road. bed was torn up, the bridge
was damaged and travel was inter-
rupted for six hours.
"A telegram from Columbus, Geor-
gla, says that city is about the centre
OF a district which has suffered greatly
from heavy rains, that set in four days
ago. The loss to the farmers in the
region is estimated at 81, 500, GOO.
Thousands of acres of corn and cot
ton have been ruined. at Augusta
five inches of rain fell on the evenings
of the 29th and Goth ult., and the result
was agreat flood in the Savannah river,
which by evening registered 33f feet
at Augusta. AS a consequence all the
bottom lands between that city and
Savannah are flooded. The western and
southern sections of Augusta were
flooded, and people were moving into
the eastern section which was higher.
On the evening of the 3lst ult., all the
territory embraced between Shultz
Hill, in South Carolina, Harrisburg
Hill, in Georgia, and Cumming street
and the second level canal in Augusca,
was under water. but the flood was
lowly receding.
james Fenner, a bookeeper of the
International Grain and Stock Ex-
change, at Toronto, has been arrested
on a charge of embezzlement. 1t is al
lodged that he is $4,000 short.
Two mail coaches running between
Austin and Fredericksburg, Texas,
were stopped by two h~ighwayman on
the evening OF. the Goth ult., near
Dripping Springs. The mail pouches
were rlfled of their contents, except
the registered letters, which escaped
the notice of the robber. 1.-The high
waymsn stopped the Incoming driver
near where he was to meet the out
going coach. He kept him bound and
gagged until the other driver came
up, when he also stopped him. After
despoiling the mall pouches, the robber
mounted his horse and galloped of"
"A heavy thunder storm passed
over Plttsburg on the evening Of the
31st ult. Streets and cellars were
flooded, and trees, fences and tele-
graphs were leveled by the wind, while
many small buildings were damaged.
A severe thunder storm, accompanied
by hail and high wind, did great dam
age on the afternoon of the 3lSt ult.,
to the crops IN South Glastonbury,
Connecticut, and ~nelghboring towns.
Large trees were blown down, and the
river road was so washed as to become
impossible. A violent thunder storm
also visited Springfield, dong much
damage.
"A small elevator in the Bremen
Tanning Works, at st. Louis, INTO
which seven girls and a man were
crowded, fell a distance of forty feet
on the evening of the Goth ult. AL
exander NJ. Farrar, President of the
company, and Annie Moran. aged Is
years, were fatally injured, and several
others sustained dangerous injuries.
Mrs. Catharine Melville died in a
hospital in Providence on the Both
ult. from burns received the day be-
fore while Fastening a slow fire with
kerosene. The barn of a farmer
named Arnold, at Germantown, Wis.
consln, was burned Oh the afternoon
of the 10Th ult., and his little son was
burned 70 death Willie hanging over
the lower half of the barn door, the
upper half being open,
A temperature Of 100 In the
shade was reported at several places
ia the Mohawk Valley, New York, on
which is full of summer guests, the
utImOln6lc ItSiSttIcu DO nv l. iLtS-
burg the maximum temperature was
90. There were several prostratlons,
none fatal. Among the affected was
Edward Locke, city editor of the
Chr0nicle- Telegraph. His condition
was considered critical.
"A terrible thunder storm passed
over Leominster, Massachusetts,, on
the evening of the 29th ult- The house
of George w. Whitney was struck by
lightning and the chimney was demol-
ished. the plastering being torn from
the interior and the window sashes
blown out. Three barns in Plaindeld
township, Northampton county,
Penna., were destroyed by lightning
on the evening of the Goth ult. The
losses aggregate over $4,000. The
house of Daniel Walton at Seabrook,
New Hampshire. was blrned by light
ming on the Goth ult. Loss, $500.
"A deputy sheriff named DeLong
was shot dead and G. q. Bostwick was